Quote Originally Posted by nat
thanks guys i've heard the way ike uses is quite a good way, but sounds complicated. i am interested in that anydvd finalthereom suggested
It's not complicated. Just run DVD Decrypter, insert the original DVD and 'one button click' to extract to your hard drive. Then run DVD Shrink and click 'open files', point to the extracted folder and press 'Backup!'.

There are other options to choose if you want to remove parts or language tracks from the copy to reduce compression but you can learn those later on.